Splits in FIFA's plan to fight discrimination at the World Cup have been exposed after reported incidents involving fans went unpunished.
The public divide was revealed Thursday at a briefing involving the chairmen of FIFA's task force against racism, Jeffrey Webb, and its disciplinary panel, Claudio Sulser. It came at a World Cup which FIFA President Sepp Blatter has pledged would not tolerate discrimination.
Webb is unhappy that evidence provided to Sulser's panel — of fans chanting gay slurs, wearing black face make-up and carrying banners with far-right symbols — did not result in any sanctions.
"It is obvious there is a disconnect between what we in the task force deem as racism and discrimination and what the disciplinary committee deems as racism and discrimination," Webb told reporters.
Webb said a better strategy is needed at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
"It is much more of a problem in Russia," the FIFA vice president acknowledged after the briefing. "Russia itself needs a special task force, just for Russia and from an educational standpoint internally."
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